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Photos: Courtesy of Bonhams There was an off-world look to the recent Bonhams annual Space History Sale earlier this month. The New York scene is a room packed with active bidders as they competed with each other, along with online bidders and buyers listening in...Book Review: First Contact – Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth
First Contact – Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc Kaufman; Simon & Schuster; New York, New York; $26.00 (hard cover); 2011. The author is a science and space reporter for the Washington Post – and capitalizes on his aptitude...So Long Spirit! Attempts to Reawaken Mars Rover End
Spirit’s last picture show. One of the last images from the Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover continues on its long-distance trek. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell It appears that it’s all over for NASA’s spirited Mars rover. The...Student Experiments Hurled Into Space
UP Aerospace rocket liftoff from New Mexico carries student experiments to the edge of space. Credit: Spaceport America SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico – NASA’s Summer of Innovation had a special liftoff here on May 20 with a powerful suborbital rocket scooting to the...Rough Stuff! New Moon Maps
By looking at three scales simultaneously, researchers can identify features of interest, such as the maria, which are smooth at large scales and rough at short scales; these features appear blue. The rough terrain of relatively young craters appears white, while...First Photo! “Dawn” of a New Era in Asteroid Research
This image, processed to show the true size of Vesta, shows the first glimpse of the giant asteroid Vesta in front of a spectacular background of stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has snapped a first image of its target – the...NASA Spacecraft Focused on Mississippi River Flooding
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team NASA’s Terra spacecraft is using its Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument to help monitor Mississippi flood conditions. As example, the U.S. Army Corps of...Follow Us
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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